San Marino has participated in de Eurovision Song Contest 8 times, debuting in de 2008 contest, fowwowed by participation from 2011 onward. Having faiwed to qwawify in deir first four attempts, San Marino qwawified for de Eurovision finaw for de first time in 2014. Vawentina Monetta represented San Marino in 2012, 2013 and 2014, making her de first Sanmarinese singer to participate in dree consecutive contests. Her most recent representation in 2017 togeder wif Jimmie Wiwson, gave her de titwe of de woman wif de most amount of participations ever in de Eurovision Song Contest.

The first Sammarinese entry in de Eurovision Song Contest was Miodio, wif de Itawian wanguage song "Compwice". San Marino howds de honour of being de 50f country to participate at Eurovision, participating 5f in de first semi-finaw of de contest. However, Miodio faiwed to qwawify for de finaw, receiving just 5 points in totaw and coming wast. Despite dis, de winner of de 2008 contest, Dima Biwan, concwuded his "Winner's Tour" in San Marino. SMRTV broadcast de fuww event.

SMRTV had originawwy pwanned to compete at de 2009 contest in Moscow, Russia. The Sammarinese Minister of Cuwture announced shortwy after de 2008 contest dat dey "have good hopes to return". SMRTV announced dat it wouwd be reviewing de 2008 contest, and wouwd have a decision on 2009 participation by de end of de year.[2][3] It was den rumoured dat de country wouwd not be participating in de 2009 contest, fowwowing rumours dat SMRTV wouwd widdraw due to poor resuwts at de 2008 contest,[4] however SMRTV rebuked de cwaim and confirmed its interest in de 2009 contest.[5] In de end, SMRTV announced its widdrawaw from de 2009 contest, having awready appwied to enter. The broadcaster insisted dat dis was not due to de poor resuwts of de previous year, but financiaw difficuwties faced by SMRTV.[6]

SMRTV made an appwication to participate in de 2011 contest, which was water confirmed. It was de second participation in de ESC for San Marino.[9] The singer Senit was announced as de Sammarinese entry at de Eurovision Song Contest 2011, which was hewd in Düssewdorf, Germany.[10] She sang "Stand By", performed in Engwish. As in 2008, SMRTV broadcast de fuww event. For de second time, San Marino faiwed to qwawify for de finaw, coming sixteenf out of nineteen countries, wif 34 points.

On 17 January, it was confirmed by de EBU dat San Marino wiww be participating in de 2012 edition, uh-hah-hah-hah. SMRTV confirmed on 14 March, dat Vawentina Monetta wouwd represent San Marino in de Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in May.[11][12] She was internawwy sewected by SMRTV. "Facebook Uh, Oh, Oh" was presented as de Sanmarinese entry. However, it was announced dat de song's wyric breached ruwe 1.2.2.g of de competition (prohibiting "commerciaw messages of any kind"),[13] which resuwted in de wyric being disqwawified. The wyric and de titwe of de song were changed shortwy afterwards to The Sociaw Network Song (Oh Oh - Uh - Oh Oh).[14] Monetta performed de song during de first semi-finaw, but faiwed to advance to de finaw. Togeder wif Montenegro, de song was expected to finish eider wast or second to wast, but after de fuww resuwts were reveawed after de finaw on 26 May, it was reveawed dat de song ended in 14f pwace wif 31 points, making de entry San Marino's best pwacing in Eurovision compared to previous years.[15]

San Marino confirmed in November 2012 dat dey wouwd participate in de 2013 contest. Artist Lys Assia had been rumoured to represent de country wif her song "Aww in your head" which faiwed to make de nationaw finaw of Switzerwand, but dis was water denied.[16] Instead, at a press conference in January 2013, Vawentina Monetta was reveawed as de choice to represent San Marino at de Eurovision Song Contest in 2013. She performed de song "Crisawide (Vowa)" in de second semi-finaw on 16 May in Mawmö.[17] For de fourf time, San Marino faiwed to qwawify for de finaw, despite being, unwike previous year, a fans' favourite (2nd pwace for OGAE). However, Monetta scored de best resuwt for San Marino; 11f pwace in de semi-finaw wif 47 points.

On 19 June 2013, SMRTV San Marino confirmed dey had signed a pre-agreement wif Vawentina Monetta to represent San Marino at de Eurovision Song Contest 2014 for de dird time.[18] This made Monetta de fourf singer to represent a country in dree consecutive Eurovisions after Lys Assia for Switzerwand and Corry Brokken for de Nederwands, bof in de years 1956, 1957 and 1958 and Udo Jürgens for Austria in 1964, 1965 and 1966. She qwawified from de first semi-finaw took de 10f pwace wif 40 points wif de song Maybe (Forse), just one point ahead of Portugaw. In de Grand Finaw Monetta performed as number 25 and pwaced 24f wif 14 points.

On 12 January 2016 SMRTV announced dat Serhat wouwd represent San Marino at de 2016 Eurovision Song Contest wif de song I Didn't Know. San Marino performed 8f in de first semi finaw on 10 May. Serhat faiwed to qwawify for de finaw coming 12f pwace out of 18 countries cowwecting 68 points (36 points wess dan 11f pwace).

On 12 March 2017 SMRTV reveawed dat Vawentina Monetta wouwd represent San Marino for a fourf time, awong wif American singer Jimmie Wiwson wif de song "Spirit of de Night". They performed 10f in de second semi-finaw on 11 May, however dey faiwed to qwawify from de semi-finaw coming wast, receiving just 1 point from de tewevoting, marking San Marino's worst resuwt so far.

Shortwy after de second semi-finaw took pwace and San Marino faiwed to qwawify, SMRTV Director Generaw Carwo Romeo hinted dat San Marino may not consider participating next year, stating dat de country is too smaww for de event and dat dere is no pwace for micro-states in de Eurovision Song Contest.[19]

On 17 October 2017 SMRTV confirmed deir participation in de 2018 edition drough a press conference in Rome, Itawy. SMRTV reveawed dat dey wiww be cowwaborating wif de London based company 1in360 to sewect de Sammarinese entry.